SAP ECC Project Management
Project planning, resource allocation, time tracking, expense management, and project accounting for project-centric businesses.
Project Management is a core strength for SAP ECC — a primary capability included in standard deployments. The product is best suited to existing sap ecc customers planning s/4hana migration.
What's in SAP ECC project management
The project management scope SAP ECC ships, grouped as the product itself organises it.
Other capabilities12
- Evaluating ClaimsReports on the status, value, and aging of open project claims.
- PRT Availability CheckChecks whether a required tool or piece of equipment is free for the planned activity dates.
- Manual and Automatic Payment PlanningPlans expected project payments manually or generates them automatically from cost and revenue plans.
- Network SchedulingCalculates activity dates across a project network accounting for time constraints and float.
Will SAP ECC meet your other capabilities needs? Build your requirements and perform a full analysis.
Build my requirements →The SAP ECC Evaluation Kit
An independent assessment of SAP ECC — strengths, gaps and real pricing — plus a requirements template you can score its project management against alongside every other system on your shortlist.
SAP ECC Evaluation Kit
2026 Edition · PDF guide + XLSX template
ERP Research
- Buyer's guide (PDF): SAP ECC independently assessed — where it is strong, where it is not, and what it actually costs
- Requirements template (XLSX): weight your requirements and score vendors side by side
- Structured by module, so project management sits alongside the rest of your scope
- The questions to put to the vendor and to implementation partners
SAP ECC Evaluation Kit
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Project Management — strength by vendor
| Vendor | Strength | Best for | Starting price | Implementation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ★★★ strong | Midsize companies or subsidiaries needing cloud-first SAP | $120/user/mo | 4–8 months | |
 | ★★★ strong | Large enterprises moving from on-premise Oracle to cloud | Custom | 9–18 months | |
 | ★★★ strong | Mid-to-large companies in the Microsoft ecosystem | $50/user/mo | 6–14 months | |
 | ★★★ strong | Midsize companies wanting unlimited users and flexible cloud ERP | Custom | 4–8 months | |
 | ★★★ strong | Service companies and nonprofits needing deep financial management | Custom | 3–6 months | |
 | ★★★ strong | Asset-intensive industries needing ERP, EAM, and field service in one platform | $100/user/mo | 6–14 months | |
 | ★★★ strong | People-centric organisations needing unified HR + finance | Custom | 6–12 months | |
 | ★★★ strong | Professional services firms already on Salesforce | $100/user/mo | 3–7 months |
Evaluating project management on SAP ECC
What to put in front of the vendor before you commit.
- 1Project accounting depth (WIP, revenue recognition)
- 2Resource planning and skill-based allocation
- 3Time and expense capture (mobile, web)
- 4Integration with financial management
- 5Support for your billing models (T&M, fixed price, milestone)
SAP ECC starts at a custom quote with a typical total cost of $1M–$50M+ and a 12–36 months implementation.
Full SAP ECC pricing breakdown →SAP ECC implementation partners
Firms with proven SAP ECC delivery experience — start here rather than an open RFP.
Birchman
PlatinumBracknell, United Kingdom
Birchman is a UK founded business transformation and IT consultancy specialising in SAP and ERP solutions. We're a Global SAP Platinum Partner and the primary UK member of United VARs, the world's largest alliance of SAP solution providers, giving us access to local expertise and delivery capability in 80+ countries. We help organisations plan, migrate to and thrive on SAP Cloud ERP (S/4HANA), whether that's moving off legacy ECC6, running a phased cloud migration or optimising an existing SAP landscape. Our services cover the full transformation lifecycle: strategy and target operating model design, ERP implementation, data analytics, cloud infrastructure, application development, and IT governance. We back this with industry specific accelerator packages for Mining, CPG, and Professional Services, drawing on 20+ years of sector experience. Over that time, we've built a reputation not just for delivering transformation projects but for steadying them. Brought in when a project needs a safe pair of hands to see it through to a successful outcome. It's why so many customers trust us with their most critical digital transformation and SAP work. We measure our success by our customers', helping them get the most out of their SAP investment, not just at go-live but for years afterwards. Our Application Management Services and ongoing consultancy keep that relationship going, with continuous improvement built in as standard. We're big enough to lead complex, global transformation projects and boutique enough to still care about every client we work with.
Products: SAP Cloud ERP (S/4HANA) Public & Private, Business Technology Platform, Implementation
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delaware
PlatinumLondon, United Kingdom
SAP Platinum Partner and global Platinum Reseller — one of just eleven worldwide — and one of twelve RISE with SAP Validated Partners. Winner of the 2024 SAP Pinnacle Award for SAP BTP customer value and the SAP Partner Award 2026 for Partner Industry Innovation. 5,000+ professionals across 38 offices in 20+ countries support the full SAP lifecycle, from S/4HANA and RISE with SAP implementations to application managed services for 250+ AMS clients globally. The UK practice, established in Bristol in 2017, spans 200+ consultants across SAP and Microsoft technologies.
Products: SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud, SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud, SAP S/4HANA On-Premise
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Softengine
PlatinumWoodland Hills, United States
Softengine has implemented SAP Business One for small and mid-market companies since 1996. Nearly 30 years, 200+ implementations, and a 98% client retention rate over five years. Our expertise is operational. Manufacturers, distributors, food and beverage producers, construction firms, field service teams and oil and gas operators – businesses where lot traceability, job costing, warehouse throughput and shop floor visibility decide whether an ERP project succeeds or stalls. Where standard SAP Business One falls short, we built our own. WMS+ for warehouse management. Container Management for import heavy distribution. Softengine Processing for seafood. Manufacturing Solutions for production. Web Portals for customer self service. All native SAP Business One extensions, developed and supported in house. Denver Glass standardized seven companies and cut roughly a week off month-end close. Baronet Coffee retired a 30 year old ERP and consolidated 12 tools into one source of truth. Turkana Food gained real time inventory visibility across its distribution operation. We also deploy SAP Business One on our own secure hosted cloud, so infrastructure is one less vendor to manage. Woodland Hills, California. Serving clients across North America.
Products: SAP Business One
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TEKROI PRIVATE LIMITED
PlatinumHyderabad, India
TEKROI Private Limited is a Hyderabad-based SAP Business One partner operating under SAP PartnerEdge (Sell & Service). Founded in 2020 by Venkata Siva Reddy Polu and Anitha Vennapusa, the firm rests on a founding team whose first SAP Business One go-lives date back to 2005 — more than 20 years of practice and over 350 implementations delivered across roughly 30 countries, spanning India, Nepal, East and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, the UK and Europe, and the Americas. A team of 60+ consultants, developers and support engineers works from the company's Innovation Hub in Bowenpally, Hyderabad, with a second office in Kathmandu, Nepal. Services cover new SAP Business One implementations on both SQL Server and HANA, SQL-to-HANA migration, cloud subscriptions, post go-live support and AMC, analytics, and IoT integration. Delivery is organised into 32 industry-specific solutions — 25 of them manufacturing verticals — including pharmaceutical API and formulation, chemicals and blending, food and confectionery, cement, steel and natural stone, cables and LED, automotive and two-wheeler CKD assembly, aerospace and defence components, medical devices, pre-engineered buildings, construction and EPC projects, trading and distribution, retail, healthcare services, agri warehousing and logistics, and technology services. TEKROI also develops TEKAI, an AI layer that connects assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT and Perplexity to live SAP Business One data. SAP featured TEKAI in its global AI Partner Innovations playbook as one of only four Generative AI solutions for SAP Business One worldwide, and the only one from an Asia-based partner. The company name captures its approach: TEK for technology, ROI for return on investment.
Products: SAP Business One, SAP Business One AI MCP Connector, SAP Business One on HANA
View profile →SAP ECC Project Management FAQ
What project management functionality is in SAP ECC?
Project System (PS) provides Work Breakdown Structures, network activities, project cost planning and budgeting, and cash management tied to individual projects — built for capital projects, engineer-to-order manufacturing, and complex internal initiatives rather than lightweight task tracking.
Can SAP ECC track project costs against a budget in real time?
Yes — Project Cash Management and cost planning within PS tie committed and actual costs from purchase orders, time entries, and invoices back to the WBS in real time, which is why engineer-to-order manufacturers have relied on it for job costing.
Does SAP ECC support claims management for project disputes?
Yes, through Claims Management (PS-CLM), which documents and tracks cost or schedule claims arising during a project — a capability more relevant to construction, engineering, and long-cycle capital projects than to short internal initiatives.
Is SAP ECC's Project System suitable for agile or lightweight project tracking?
Not really — PS is built for structured, WBS-driven projects with formal cost and schedule controls, common in capital-intensive industries. Teams wanting lightweight task boards typically use a separate collaboration tool alongside ECC rather than PS itself.
Does project data map cleanly to S/4HANA during migration?
Project System concepts carry forward largely intact to S/4HANA, though S/4HANA adds a more modern Fiori-based project overview and tighter integration with commercial project management add-ons, so most PS customers see a lower-risk migration than finance-heavy ECC users.
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